22:49 - "Now I'm not a fan of using setters and getters everywhere ... I'm just going to make them (Variables) accessible directly by declaring them as public." This is the part where my Programming II teacher would lose her mind and possibly commit manslaughter.
I've always seen getters and setters as a way of allowing the programmer to have control over variable access in the future, if they so choose. You may not care right now if other classes can directly access your player's position, but what if in the future you want to be able to log where the player is on the map for debugging purposes? It's a lot easier to put that in your setter function as opposed to having to track down all of the different pieces of code that interact with your public variable.
In my opinion, you can make class members public in managed languages like c# or java, but with unmanaged languages like c and c++ you NEED getters and setters.
You can control access to the attribute with or without accessor methods(getters/setters). You can have a public/private variable in your class or you can have public/private accessor methods. The advantage of accessor methods is that you can change a property back and forth between being computed and not being computed without changing anything outside the class. If you are 100% certain you won't need to do this, there's no real benefit to them(you're probably wrong if you are 100% certain of this). IMHO: This is one of the things that C# got right(and I'm a Microsoft hater) because it uses the same syntax for accessing a variable with a getter/setter as it does for accessing a variable without a getter/setter. This allows you to switch back and forth between computed attributes and non-computed attributes without having to worry about affecting code outside the class definition.
I'm in my third year of computer science and I've never watched someone else code before. It's weird to me that I can follow along and not get lost like I do learning new things in class. Can't wait to make a game.
Thanks Sedit, I hope people can tolerate the "not entirely from scratch" nature of the series, its just to big to do everything in fine detail, without getting too boring
How sad I feel not knowing everything you know. I have a hard time understanding programming but I do not want to give up. I need motivation I really want to learn. greetings from Argentina. You are amazing. Hugs
Same! I looove computing and coding but I have a hard time understanding it's process. I'm more into the Linguistic side instead of the Calculus and Physics. However, I'm not giving up either. May you have a good luck into gaining knowledge in such thing. Cheers!
This is a very educational video. Everything that you've put together shows the reality that creating these kinds of games (And any other game) takes a LOT of work. My desired field in this though is more focused on AI and Language processing. But I do wish to make a game as a hobby someday. But that will be probably take about 5 to 10 years. LOL
Hi Lucas, thanks! I agree, it just goes to show how perceived simplicity is in reality far from simple, I hope it serves to show ambitious young programmers that it takes time and effort to do even basic games, and that they should not start with 3D MMORPGs.
Procedural generation will free up a lot of time as the engine will be handling the placement of the tiles, just my two cents. Thanks for the great tutorial series, it is much appreciated.
Hey thanks Brandon, I agree with you, I think procedural generation is a fascinating topic, and I hope to explore it a little one day. Added to the list :)
The engine simply takes input and displays coloured squares :D What can be done with that is only limited by your imagination! Thanks, Its been a lot of work this one, so I'm pleased its being appreciated already.
These videos are a wealth of info. For one you're programming in C++ and most shy away from such things. It's like going right to the core of things where we can understand via C++. What I'm curious of is are you coding it all with a custom graphics engine? Is there SDL or SFML hiding in the background?
@@javidx9 Welcome, so you can utilize graphics in general without the need to code extra even in windows? I guess for the more adv graphics one would program in OpenGl.
They are simple graphics but yes - I have since developed a very similar second engine olcPixelGameEngine which uses proper full colour pixels. It is cross platform also, but uses a bit of OpenGL behind the scenes.
Mate I haven't touched C++ in nearly 8 years, but your channel has inspired me so much that not only have I picked up the language again, I might actually start making a few videos of my own! Keep up the good work mate! :)
Hi Javid! I've been wanting to convert this RPG series to the PixelGameEngine instead of console engine, but I just can't seem to figure out how to convert the code!? Can you please make a short video explaining how to do it??
I'd love to see a tutorial on making a game like final fantasy tactics with all the engines and tools nessary to design any kind of variation of it Including adding classes skills sprites maps music and so on
so, i found the sprite viewer and map editor on github, but the map editor in particular doesn't seem to be working for me. All I ever get is a black console, although the width/height and edit button show up in the upper right corner, and all the commands are visible at the bottom. It just doesn't seem to want to load the maps, the lvl files.
That approach for a map file is okay for beginners, but I think the way I'd approach it would be as a binary file. You'd have a 2 byte header for the X, Y values, then X * Y amount of tile/flag values. In this case, the flag would only be 0 or 1, for solid or not. If you want to get really fancy, zlib-compress the name string and prepend a 2 or 4 byte CRC value to the map header for integrity checking.
I am using Visual Studio Code and want to use extensions like Unicode Latex or ASCII Unicode Escape or Insert Special Symbols. My question is will these extensions work with your code as I see that you need to enable Unicode for these projects.
I'm not familiar with those extensions, but the code should be compatible with both ASCII and Unicode. Also, my code can be easily converted to non-unicode if its a real problem.
Hi Adrien, that's a really good question, and any answer I give will only upset somebody else, but here it is. I have nothing against "modern" tools like those you described, but I also don't feel I always need the additional protection or utility those devices offer. I use them when I feel it's necessary. In this instance, the project is manageable enough to not need them, so I can code more fluently - which admittedly is a highly personally subjective opinion. Additionally, I'm a bit old fashioned perhaps, I've used arrays and pointers for 25+ years, and as a result I'm instinctively aware of where and how I'm managing my memory, so the risk of problems arising (in my specific case) is minimal. I hope you receive this as an honest answer, and not an attempt to discredit using such approaches.
Expanding on this, I've observed on recent code bases that smart pointers are ignored for the "traditional" approach. If you're allocating heap memory, and are confident in memory management for the given context, then I don't see an issue in handling raw pointers. I'd personally use smart pointers, as they'd serve to benefit on scalable code bases, but for stuff like this I'd be tempted to use raw pointers myself.
I'm just getting into coding and I was wondering if using tutorials like this is a valid way of learning or do I need to do it all by myself without help?
Hi Jarmachi, my videos do assume you know some of the basics first, such as program flow, variables, arrays and routines. After that I just try to present ideas that people could have some fun with. This video is quite advanced relative to many of my others. I hope that using the console helps bridge the giant leap form "hello world!" to full graphical APIs, allowing newcomers to understand the principles of why what they do - does what it does.
Thank you for a response and yes I have a solid grasp on theses concepts as I have just finished my C programming course in college and was looking for more advanced subjects.
Jarmachi Heya Jamachi, just wanted to say that even when you follow along with a tute like this you’ll probably start to have opinions about doing things differently. I find I learn a lot when That happens because my opinion drives me to understand the code and look up c++ reference, which is easier with very focussed problems :)
Hi Londerson! Almost, there is an SDL2 version in the works that should be fine for linux. I dont have a mac to test it with though. It should just be a drop in replacement for the header file
I am having trouble loading sprites into my program using the olcPixelGameEngine2.0. They just show up blank or as a black square. I have them in my project and i've tried your .spr and my .png files and nothing works :( anyone know what could be happening?
this is awsome .I am in the middle of learning c# and i can say some of it makes sense to me but i am still a noob comparet to this guy .But thats not gonna stop me for trying to learn and have fun with programming (:
I've been working with Visual Studio 2019. Really not sure what to think of it compared to the automake world of linux. It seems that nested source directory structures don't appear to really be supported in Visual Studio. So... I have 12 *.cpp files and 14 *.h files all splayed out in one directory. I have one filter for display 'Experiments' -- ui toy things that I want to play with in isolated scope; and one filter for GuiElements -- where I have hand crafted gui elements for buttons, sliders, textboxes, editable text boxes, and scrollable lists. The libraries I'm using are cross platform -- but it would take a bit of doing to get it running on Linux.
At 28:05 you describe the Tile Sheet as "basically a One Lone Coder format sprite" but I couldn't find where you actually said what that is >_< What am I missing? Did I miss a video where you described the "OLC Sprite" format?
Hi Phil, I notice youve been watching the entire back catalogue? Thanks for that! Ill answer all your comments soon, but I can do this one quickly, the code it yourself frogger video talks about sprites.
Indeed, and very edumacational it has been ;-) I did watch that one but the sprite stuff must have passed me by, I'll try again. I wonder whether there's some room for encapsulating them as a class to hide the heavy lifting and allow for future optimisation without breaking current code…yet another argument for Object Oriented Coding ^_^
hello, do your tutorials implement some form on non machine dependant speed so it will run on the same speed on all machines? would like to know how to implement it, thanks :)
Although I quite enjoyed the whole series, there's a lot of problems with this code. You're missing virtual destructors for some of your classes, the assets will never be unloaded (and in result the clean-up is delegated to the system) since they're in the singleton. You could as well use unique_ptrs to store the array in order not to destroy them manually.
Thanks Tomasz! As with most of my projects I only delete what I explicitly allocate, and in this case you are correct, the system will do this. But also, given I know the simplicity of my projects Im happy for all the resources to be loaded once and remain resident. I'll be examining level loading in some detail in 2019 which will take a very different approach than that shown in this simple example.
I love these tutorials I wonder if you could convert them to java script and or c sharp and maybe add multiplayer online functions and than have a overall goal of teaching the player new skills
I'm curious why you chose to implement a singleton in that manner, instead of have a static class variable for the map? You wouldn't need the somewhat less readable RGG_Assets::get().method(), but instead assetinstance.method(). Using the static variable approach goes against the OOP paradigm less, but ensures a single cache of sprites is still used.
A map with a string index is slow because string equality checks are slow (e.g using find on the map), whereas an integer index is very fast in comparison.
i barely understand on programming. but i will try my best :D thank you for sharing your knowledge about this. greetings from Philippines. keep it up. thumbsup
If I'm wrong please correct me. Using map comes with another advantage. Whenever you search something in map, it guarantees that the time complexity will be log(n). (my English is not so good but i hope you get it 🙂)
Hi Samil, this in some situations can be considered an advantage yes, but there are faster data structures than map that can achieve similar goals. I think its just important to choose the most appropriate tool for the job.
Hi. First of all, thanks a lot for such great tutorials. As a beginning in programming, I did not get how you can open the sprite viewer or the map editor. Could someone help me with that? Thanks in advance.
Hey Avvv, You can do similar things in linux - I have linux versions of olcConsoleGameEngine and olcPixelGameEngine. The console version uses SDL though
It will be continued. There is a LOT of crossover and identical between these two projects, so my plan is to take the dynamic character movement, and use it with Jario for enemy control
Yeah, thanks, ive had a rush of traffic this month and exceeded my bandwidth. It should reset on the 1st. Though i will be relaunching the website at that time, so it may be a bit buggy 😁
Well its not about making money for me, I do it for the fun of doing it, and I use an environment that is really simple for others to use too. If you've just written a "hello world" program, and asking what else can I do in the console?, well the answer is anything! :D
@@javidx9 20:25 is the part i dont follow it may be all clear to someone who knows your channel but you see im new to your channel so im kinda clueless at this point
@@Goregreet Yeah, I use a header file called olcConsoleGameEngine (and more recently olcPixelGameEngine) which makes drawing to the console (or screen) very simple and accessible. Some of my earlier videos talk about this file in some detail. On my channel I try to focus on the algorithms rather than a specific implementation, so people often go and take those and implement it their own way. All the header file does is get user input and draw to the screen, it has no built-in game specific functionality.
The video does mention it, this project starts off using the "simple platform game" video code. Regardless you can see all the code in the github of you need to check things out!
Why I do hate C++? It seems you can't make any graphics right away, I know there are libraryes but I don't know how to use them and where to find documentation...maybe on internet but I actually don't care because I just don't like C++! I use to program in Basic and I have many dialects of basic even one for 3D graphics and creating videogames...so why bother?!
Why are you using the Pixel Game Engine and not the Cry Engine? The Cry Engine can do many more things that the Pixel Engine can't like Pixel Shading Bump Mapping GPU Parallax Parallagram Processing Voodoo!!
Reads the description: "... A top down role playing game in the style of Zelda and Final Fantasy." Brain: *explodes* The movement and combat systems in both of these games are very different... It's not really possible to make a game that is like both of them at the same time... So now I have to watch the whole damn thing to figure out which one it's actually like, and pull my hair out if it's the wrong one, lol.
@@javidx9 Ah that's funny that I guessed it correctly :d Anyways, what I put it there was a bit harsh. I think not getting best-practices is better than getting bad-practices. I hope you'll consider following some tech news and adjust your skills based on that?
Thanks man. I work on embedded projects with hundreds of source files, often in ides that are far from good. Ive found Hungarian notation to be invaluable to programming fluidly. If i need to do some mass refactoring then i should have spent more time in the design phase. Having visible information, i believe, doesnt do any harm.
20:20 I sat through TWENTY MINUTES of you talking about NOTHING only to be forced to have "The platform game engine." I don't know what that means, but all I see is code that this tutorial should've already gone over instead of the twenty minutes of babbling on about useless garbage that everyone knows!
You are like the Bob Ross of programming videos! I love it.
lol thats a big compliment, thanks Jordan!
Happy little coredumps.
@@javidx9 from your isometric demo I’m making a game like open ttd
@@samuelhulme8347 What's status 3 mounts later ?
@@crusaderanimation6967 very not at all, doing something completely different now
22:49 - "Now I'm not a fan of using setters and getters everywhere ... I'm just going to make them (Variables) accessible directly by declaring them as public."
This is the part where my Programming II teacher would lose her mind and possibly commit manslaughter.
Are setters/getters rreeally necessary?
I've always seen getters and setters as a way of allowing the programmer to have control over variable access in the future, if they so choose. You may not care right now if other classes can directly access your player's position, but what if in the future you want to be able to log where the player is on the map for debugging purposes? It's a lot easier to put that in your setter function as opposed to having to track down all of the different pieces of code that interact with your public variable.
In my opinion, you can make class members public in managed languages like c# or java, but with unmanaged languages like c and c++ you NEED getters and setters.
You can control access to the attribute with or without accessor methods(getters/setters). You can have a public/private variable in your class or you can have public/private accessor methods. The advantage of accessor methods is that you can change a property back and forth between being computed and not being computed without changing anything outside the class. If you are 100% certain you won't need to do this, there's no real benefit to them(you're probably wrong if you are 100% certain of this). IMHO: This is one of the things that C# got right(and I'm a Microsoft hater) because it uses the same syntax for accessing a variable with a getter/setter as it does for accessing a variable without a getter/setter. This allows you to switch back and forth between computed attributes and non-computed attributes without having to worry about affecting code outside the class definition.
@@oliverzhang9004 Interesting, I normally see the opposite. Direct variable access in C(++) and getters/setters in Java and C#.
I'm in my third year of computer science and I've never watched someone else code before. It's weird to me that I can follow along and not get lost like I do learning new things in class. Can't wait to make a game.
@p3rcio I hear from boomers that there was a time in the before times where internet didn't exist and people had to do this.
I like how you draw everything out in the beginnning. It helps me visualize everything that needs to be in the code.
IDK, I have a hunch this could turn out to be your biggest, most popular project to date Javid. Best of luck, This is awesome!
Thanks Sedit, I hope people can tolerate the "not entirely from scratch" nature of the series, its just to big to do everything in fine detail, without getting too boring
Ahhh well, it is entirely from scratch, I guess they are just going to have to Watch all the rest of your videos if they missed some of the pieces ;)
How sad I feel not knowing everything you know. I have a hard time understanding programming but I do not want to give up. I need motivation I really want to learn. greetings from Argentina. You are amazing. Hugs
I do hope you've had a fruitful year of learning.
Same! I looove computing and coding but I have a hard time understanding it's process. I'm more into the Linguistic side instead of the Calculus and Physics. However, I'm not giving up either.
May you have a good luck into gaining knowledge in such thing. Cheers!
a no bajar los brazos papa!!
@@jrg4ngst3r83 Thank you bro
As you said this OO might not be the example of best practices, but you make really nice comments about what best practices should be. Great vid. :)
"It's no good if the first enemy of the game kills you straight away"
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This is a very educational video. Everything that you've put together shows the reality that creating these kinds of games (And any other game) takes a LOT of work.
My desired field in this though is more focused on AI and Language processing. But I do wish to make a game as a hobby someday. But that will be probably take about 5 to 10 years. LOL
Hi Lucas, thanks! I agree, it just goes to show how perceived simplicity is in reality far from simple, I hope it serves to show ambitious young programmers that it takes time and effort to do even basic games, and that they should not start with 3D MMORPGs.
beautifully said.
Procedural generation will free up a lot of time as the engine will be handling the placement of the tiles, just my two cents. Thanks for the great tutorial series, it is much appreciated.
Hey thanks Brandon, I agree with you, I think procedural generation is a fascinating topic, and I hope to explore it a little one day. Added to the list :)
Hopefully this series never ends
Thanks Salvador, but Mrs Javidx9 would kill me if it didn't :D
javidx9 keep up the awesome work man. Really loving what your doing here. I know you are going to grow as a channel. 😊
I just stumbled across your video. I'm hooked, can't wait for more. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Mathew!
Damn, gotta try out more of what the old game engine can do, a RPG maker?
I think you have made a gem right here
The engine simply takes input and displays coloured squares :D What can be done with that is only limited by your imagination! Thanks, Its been a lot of work this one, so I'm pleased its being appreciated already.
your videos are awesome. i love them, and your voice is so relaxing to listen to... calming yet assuring 🙂
lol thanks FallAngel!
These videos are a wealth of info. For one you're programming in C++ and most shy away from such things. It's like going right to the core of things where we can understand via C++. What I'm curious of is are you coding it all with a custom graphics engine? Is there SDL or SFML hiding in the background?
Thanks Almark! In the case of this RPG series its just a windows command prompt.
@@javidx9 Welcome, so you can utilize graphics in general without the need to code extra even in windows? I guess for the more adv graphics one would program in OpenGl.
They are simple graphics but yes - I have since developed a very similar second engine olcPixelGameEngine which uses proper full colour pixels. It is cross platform also, but uses a bit of OpenGL behind the scenes.
Best Introduction to game programming concept
3:44 "Yes, we've used classes and structs....buut we've never really used them in anger."......Ahhh, true #OOPLoveHate
HAHAHA How did I miss this the first time around
i actually came scrolling for this comment because I wanted to make sure someone else caught that. awesome.
I feel I should tantrum that your message was "Hello Everybody!" instead of "Hello World!"
Dang, yeah - a missed opportunity :D
Is the map editing tool Itay made available on github? Also wondering the same with the sprite editing tool. Would be really fun to try it out
Agree
Mate I haven't touched C++ in nearly 8 years, but your channel has inspired me so much that not only have I picked up the language again, I might actually start making a few videos of my own! Keep up the good work mate! :)
I'll repeat what I've seen commented here. You REALLY are the Bob Ross of coding. Thank you, sir.
“Hmm, [idea] Getters and setters for every single field! Who knows what people will be doing with this in the future!” - Javid
Thank you for doing this, specially for doing it object-oriented. It's one of my weaknesses in programming.
Hi Javid!
I've been wanting to convert this RPG series to the PixelGameEngine instead of console engine, but I just can't seem to figure out how to convert the code!?
Can you please make a short video explaining how to do it??
first quest: help javid find his glasses
final quest: kill god
What type of project should I open up in visual studio to start following along? Obviously its not a console application. Can you please help? Thanks.
A console project or just empty project is fine
@@javidx9 Oh really? Fantastic, thank you!
Hi Javidx9. I liked your video although I know little aboit prohramming. What language or spftware are you using to make this game?
I love the graphics, they remind me of the old days of commander keen etc
I'd love to see a tutorial on making a game like final fantasy tactics with all the engines and tools nessary to design any kind of variation of it Including adding classes skills sprites maps music and so on
Thanks so much for this exceptional series of game dev, I was wondering if member functions could be available at the timestamps of the video?
so, i found the sprite viewer and map editor on github, but the map editor in particular doesn't seem to be working for me. All I ever get is a black console, although the width/height and edit button show up in the upper right corner, and all the commands are visible at the bottom. It just doesn't seem to want to load the maps, the lvl files.
That approach for a map file is okay for beginners, but I think the way I'd approach it would be as a binary file. You'd have a 2 byte header for the X, Y values, then X * Y amount of tile/flag values. In this case, the flag would only be 0 or 1, for solid or not. If you want to get really fancy, zlib-compress the name string and prepend a 2 or 4 byte CRC value to the map header for integrity checking.
I am using Visual Studio Code and want to use extensions like Unicode Latex or ASCII Unicode Escape or Insert Special Symbols. My question is will these extensions work with your code as I see that you need to enable Unicode for these projects.
I'm not familiar with those extensions, but the code should be compatible with both ASCII and Unicode. Also, my code can be easily converted to non-unicode if its a real problem.
You are awesome, I would like to learn as much as I can from you. I am a web architect but want to dive into low lvl. :)
Why you don't use std::array for array and smart pointers instead of having raw pointers in your classes ?
Hi Adrien, that's a really good question, and any answer I give will only upset somebody else, but here it is. I have nothing against "modern" tools like those you described, but I also don't feel I always need the additional protection or utility those devices offer. I use them when I feel it's necessary. In this instance, the project is manageable enough to not need them, so I can code more fluently - which admittedly is a highly personally subjective opinion. Additionally, I'm a bit old fashioned perhaps, I've used arrays and pointers for 25+ years, and as a result I'm instinctively aware of where and how I'm managing my memory, so the risk of problems arising (in my specific case) is minimal. I hope you receive this as an honest answer, and not an attempt to discredit using such approaches.
Expanding on this, I've observed on recent code bases that smart pointers are ignored for the "traditional" approach. If you're allocating heap memory, and are confident in memory management for the given context, then I don't see an issue in handling raw pointers. I'd personally use smart pointers, as they'd serve to benefit on scalable code bases, but for stuff like this I'd be tempted to use raw pointers myself.
I am totally fine with your answer, :) good luck for the futur of your channel
I'm just getting into coding and I was wondering if using tutorials like this is a valid way of learning or do I need to do it all by myself without help?
Hi Jarmachi, my videos do assume you know some of the basics first, such as program flow, variables, arrays and routines. After that I just try to present ideas that people could have some fun with. This video is quite advanced relative to many of my others. I hope that using the console helps bridge the giant leap form "hello world!" to full graphical APIs, allowing newcomers to understand the principles of why what they do - does what it does.
Thank you for a response and yes I have a solid grasp on theses concepts as I have just finished my C programming course in college and was looking for more advanced subjects.
Jarmachi Heya Jamachi, just wanted to say that even when you follow along with a tute like this you’ll probably start to have opinions about doing things differently. I find I learn a lot when That happens because my opinion drives me to understand the code and look up c++ reference, which is easier with very focussed problems :)
Hello, Javid. We have chance for one version of olcConsoleGameEngine.h for Mac or Linux (without "window.h")?
Hi Londerson! Almost, there is an SDL2 version in the works that should be fine for linux. I dont have a mac to test it with though. It should just be a drop in replacement for the header file
Tanx, for the tip. Your work is amazing! Do you have a big fan here.
Thanks for the Tutorials, please create some for Node Connection UI. where an element can have an input and output node
Thanks for sharing this, looks amazing...
Thanks Davis, no problem!
39:25 I thought you were going to use the flyweight pattern here instead of singleton.
Great video!
I am having trouble loading sprites into my program using the olcPixelGameEngine2.0. They just show up blank or as a black square. I have them in my project and i've tried your .spr and my .png files and nothing works :( anyone know what could be happening?
this is awsome .I am in the middle of learning c# and i can say some of it makes sense to me but i am still a noob comparet to this guy .But thats not gonna stop me for trying to learn and have fun with programming (:
I've been working with Visual Studio 2019. Really not sure what to think of it compared to the automake world of linux. It seems that nested source directory structures don't appear to really be supported in Visual Studio. So... I have 12 *.cpp files and 14 *.h files all splayed out in one directory. I have one filter for display 'Experiments' -- ui toy things that I want to play with in isolated scope; and one filter for GuiElements -- where I have hand crafted gui elements for buttons, sliders, textboxes, editable text boxes, and scrollable lists. The libraries I'm using are cross platform -- but it would take a bit of doing to get it running on Linux.
At 28:05 you describe the Tile Sheet as "basically a One Lone Coder format sprite" but I couldn't find where you actually said what that is >_<
What am I missing? Did I miss a video where you described the "OLC Sprite" format?
Hi Phil, I notice youve been watching the entire back catalogue? Thanks for that! Ill answer all your comments soon, but I can do this one quickly, the code it yourself frogger video talks about sprites.
Indeed, and very edumacational it has been ;-)
I did watch that one but the sprite stuff must have passed me by, I'll try again. I wonder whether there's some room for encapsulating them as a class to hide the heavy lifting and allow for future optimisation without breaking current code…yet another argument for Object Oriented Coding ^_^
hello, do your tutorials implement some form on non machine dependant speed so it will run on the same speed on all machines? would like to know how to implement it, thanks :)
Hi Samuel, yes they do, Introduction to console game engine is a good place to start!
nice to hear that, thanks :)
Although I quite enjoyed the whole series, there's a lot of problems with this code. You're missing virtual destructors for some of your classes, the assets will never be unloaded (and in result the clean-up is delegated to the system) since they're in the singleton. You could as well use unique_ptrs to store the array in order not to destroy them manually.
Thanks Tomasz! As with most of my projects I only delete what I explicitly allocate, and in this case you are correct, the system will do this. But also, given I know the simplicity of my projects Im happy for all the resources to be loaded once and remain resident. I'll be examining level loading in some detail in 2019 which will take a very different approach than that shown in this simple example.
I love these tutorials I wonder if you could convert them to java script and or c sharp and maybe add multiplayer online functions and than have a overall goal of teaching the player new skills
This is skyrocket as my favorite channel.
I'm curious why you chose to implement a singleton in that manner, instead of have a static class variable for the map? You wouldn't need the somewhat less readable RGG_Assets::get().method(), but instead assetinstance.method(). Using the static variable approach goes against the OOP paradigm less, but ensures a single cache of sprites is still used.
Thanks for your videos, super helpful. With this project being so Object oriented, why choose c++ over c#?
What exactly has OO to do with this choice? C++ supports it pretty well and the advantages of C# over C++ lie eleswhere.
this is premier league
Because goal of this video is not teaching game development, the goal of this video is teach object oriented programming
A map with a string index is slow because string equality checks are slow (e.g using find on the map), whereas an integer index is very fast in comparison.
i barely understand on programming. but i will try my best :D thank you for sharing your knowledge about this. greetings from Philippines. keep it up. thumbsup
Can I write this on Geany instead Microsoft V.Studio?
If I'm wrong please correct me. Using map comes with another advantage. Whenever you search something in map, it guarantees that the time complexity will be log(n). (my English is not so good but i hope you get it 🙂)
Hi Samil, this in some situations can be considered an advantage yes, but there are faster data structures than map that can achieve similar goals. I think its just important to choose the most appropriate tool for the job.
Why not use an enum with an array? Wouldn't that allow friendly naming with an array?
Основной минус такого способа - конечное число символов латыни в матрице =)
i get font height // ScreenHeight to big when debugging ERORR how do u solve that?
The console is too large for your screen, try halving fonth and fontw values in ConstructConsole function.
@@javidx9 it works on the debugger, but the .exe dosen't show any pixels except the blue ff box, why do i get only 2fps?
Did you download the images required? Debugger runs much much slower than release build.
What programming language is this?
C++
@@javidx9 Thanks!
Need more Javiidx9 videos.... I ran out after watching them all
Great tutorials, but where can I find that graphic tools for creating the map and the viewer of the spritesheet?
is there a tutorial to learn how to build the OLC engine ?
Hi. First of all, thanks a lot for such great tutorials. As a beginning in programming, I did not get how you can open the sprite viewer or the map editor. Could someone help me with that? Thanks in advance.
Just a little question:
Is it possible to use binary literals in Visual C++?
Hi Salainen. It is, in certain implementations you can specify 0b000111 for example, but not all of them.
javidx9 Okay, thanks!
LOL those monitors!
Wonderful schematic of how an RPG game should be made!
Looks great.
But needs more THAC0.
Wow that took me back :D
Why did you mention that name?
How can i download "olcConsoleGameEngine.h" ?? sorry i'm not good at English TT.
Oh i find it!
Good stuff!
can i do this on linux? or do i need visual studio?
Hey Avvv, You can do similar things in linux - I have linux versions of olcConsoleGameEngine and olcPixelGameEngine. The console version uses SDL though
Thanks for the reply.
SDL is the usual in Linux systems most of the time.
HA, Just got to that header file and using namespace std; LMFAO, Wittys gonna attack you :p
Sedit T
To be fair, he attacks everyone :V
What about super Jario bros? Is it still being continued?
It will be continued. There is a LOT of crossover and identical between these two projects, so my plan is to take the dynamic character movement, and use it with Jario for enemy control
Alright, glad to hear that. Keep up the good work!
I love your channel man !
I am pleased Bart, thanks!
@@javidx9 me too
Can't access your website, dude. I'm getting a 509 error.
Yeah, thanks, ive had a rush of traffic this month and exceeded my bandwidth. It should reset on the 1st. Though i will be relaunching the website at that time, so it may be a bit buggy 😁
Don t used SFML ? Or only openGL ?
I have used SMFL, SDL, OpenGL, DirectX and even experimented with Vulkan, but in this instance, I'm using the console.
What is the point in console games, they can not be monetized? хД
Well its not about making money for me, I do it for the fun of doing it, and I use an environment that is really simple for others to use too. If you've just written a "hello world" program, and asking what else can I do in the console?, well the answer is anything! :D
Chrono trigger!!!
Magnum Opus.
which programing language does he use?
C--
Great vid!!
video starts at 5:24
Thank me later...
netflix please buy this serial
I would pay to watch this lol
Wow wait how did that code just magically appear how did you get it wtf this is so unclear
Which part are you referring too Beavis, perhaps I can help!
@@javidx9 20:25 is the part i dont follow it may be all clear to someone who knows your channel but you see im new to your channel so im kinda clueless at this point
@@Goregreet Yeah, I use a header file called olcConsoleGameEngine (and more recently olcPixelGameEngine) which makes drawing to the console (or screen) very simple and accessible. Some of my earlier videos talk about this file in some detail. On my channel I try to focus on the algorithms rather than a specific implementation, so people often go and take those and implement it their own way. All the header file does is get user input and draw to the screen, it has no built-in game specific functionality.
@@javidx9 What about at 31:55 you all of a sudden have a ton of code not mentioned in the video?
The video does mention it, this project starts off using the "simple platform game" video code. Regardless you can see all the code in the github of you need to check things out!
I read it: Covid-it-yourself 😭
This guy looks like Gilfoyle from Silicon Valley
FIZZY VIMTO
Why I do hate C++? It seems you can't make any graphics right away, I know there are libraryes but I don't know how to use them and where to find documentation...maybe on internet but I actually don't care because I just don't like C++! I use to program in Basic and I have many dialects of basic even one for 3D graphics and creating videogames...so why bother?!
Why are you using the Pixel Game Engine and not the Cry Engine? The Cry Engine can do many more things that the Pixel Engine can't like Pixel Shading Bump Mapping GPU Parallax Parallagram Processing Voodoo!!
Reads the description: "... A top down role playing game in the style of Zelda and Final Fantasy."
Brain: *explodes*
The movement and combat systems in both of these games are very different... It's not really possible to make a game that is like both of them at the same time... So now I have to watch the whole damn thing to figure out which one it's actually like, and pull my hair out if it's the wrong one, lol.
he said its like FF because its more story driven.
The way you move around and attacks things is like the original Zelda game.
@@JustinK0 Yes, he explains that really guy after, lol. It was a joke.
Can you make a video on making minecraft
So you made a secret of Mana clone
source code?
The only videos Ive not released source for is the RPG series - I will, I just want to tidy it up first.
I'd suggesting putting the coding language somewhere
You can see the cpp files at the start of the video, it doesnt say .java or .cs it says cpp which is c++
Looks like Pokémon
I immediately close the video as soon as I heard this:
> I'm gonna use this lowercase c to indicate it's a class.
What are you man? from 80s?
Err, actually yeah...
@@javidx9 Ah that's funny that I guessed it correctly :d Anyways, what I put it there was a bit harsh. I think not getting best-practices is better than getting bad-practices. I hope you'll consider following some tech news and adjust your skills based on that?
Thanks man. I work on embedded projects with hundreds of source files, often in ides that are far from good. Ive found Hungarian notation to be invaluable to programming fluidly. If i need to do some mass refactoring then i should have spent more time in the design phase. Having visible information, i believe, doesnt do any harm.
First post!
C# 😪
err, c++ actually
@@javidx9 ok I got confused with the ide sorry
Once you break rules of OOP you no longer use OOP in a justifed way. Go for peocedural programming, it is better.
This is far too complicated for what I wanted
you didnt want to "code an RPG game yourself"? hahahah
20:20 I sat through TWENTY MINUTES of you talking about NOTHING only to be forced to have "The platform game engine." I don't know what that means, but all I see is code that this tutorial should've already gone over instead of the twenty minutes of babbling on about useless garbage that everyone knows!
Well clearly you're too smart for this channel! Good luck!
@@javidx9 yeah he is well too smart 😂😂